South Africa Falters as Unrest Spreads

By

Patrick McGroarty and

Devon Maylie

October 11, 2012

JOHANNESBURG—Eighteen years ago, the African National Congress took control from a white-minority government that kept black South Africans down.

Now, ANC President Jacob Zuma leads a black-majority government that has left many black South Africans behind. Black households earn less compared with their white neighbors than they did when apartheid ended in 1994. The gap between rich and poor is wider than when Mr. Zuma took office...